This public interest litigation has been filed seeking

following reliefs:

<i) Issue a writ of certiorari and strike down

the

impugned

Government

Order

dated

05.02.2022

bearing

no.EP

14

SHH

2022,

Bengaluru, (Annexure-A);

ii) Issue a writ of mandamus or such other

direction to the Respondents to provide protection

to students and women being harassed for

wearing

headscarves/hijabs

in

educational

institutions and other public spaces;

iii) Issue a writ of mandamus or such other

direction to the Respondents to identify culprits

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responsible for the harassment of students and

women harassed for wearing headscarves/hijabs

and lodge FIRs and investigate the matter; and

iv) Pass such other orders as the Hon9ble

Court may deem fit in the interest of justice and

equity.=

2. First petitioner, an unregistered association,

claims to be <A Womens Organization committed to achieve

democracy, equality and womens emancipation= having <a

Pan India Membership of over 1 crore.= It claims to have

the core objective of striving to unite women and widen

their participation in the struggles against authoritarianism,

communalism, separatism and other divisive forces and

uphold democracy, secularism,